Re:Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
by bluedino on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:49AM
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A couple years ago, I worked at a company who's ERP system ran on an IBM System i (formerly known as AS/400). At a user conference, IBM had a table setup with a couple sales guys and a pair of servers on the table.
The first one was the latest server that could run Series i. No big deal, we were coming to the end of our maintenance contract and would probably be buying a new machine in the next year or so.
The second one was a 2U, 48-socket POWER server. They bragged about it running thousands of Linux VM's at a time. I found it a bit odd because nobody who would be running this particular ERP software would be running thousands of Linux VM's.
The first one was the latest server that could run Series i. No big deal, we were coming to the end of our maintenance contract and would probably be buying a new machine in the next year or so.
The second one was a 2U, 48-socket POWER server. They bragged about it running thousands of Linux VM's at a time. I found it a bit odd because nobody who would be running this particular ERP software would be running thousands of Linux VM's.